Sandra Finley DoranBesprekingen

The setting: the groundbreaking ceremony of the new Saratoga, New York, Seventh-day Adventist church. Why Saratoga? Are not hundreds a Seventh-day Adventist churches constructed each year? Why a story about this one church? The House that God built is not really the story of the Saratoga church––but the stories of several of its individual members. Through flashbacks, the author takes us back into the lives of several who are gathered at the groundbreaking, tracing the clear and often miraculous leading of God in bringing them together at a particular place and time. When God builds a house, it is more than lumber and plaster––it is people. Men and women may work to erect a church building. But it takes God to build a Church.

What do you do? You've answered that question many ways. Sometimes defensively, as if your job defined who you were an established your worth. Other times with satisfaction at the achievements, at home or at work, you have attained. But is what you do all there is to life? To you? His life in never–ending vertical climb on somebody's career ladder, or is there more? Authors and real-life sisters Sandra Finley Doran and Dale Finley Slongwhite say Yes. Gathering is a collection of tender stories that embrace life's large subjects such as identity seeking, child raising, marriage, illness, education, religion, deaths, and friendship. Doran and Slongwhite connect with the reader on the front lines of life––struggling to make ends meet, handling children's crises, and working on marriages. They bear their souls with uncommon candor and vulnerability to encourage us to gather and treasure life's varied experiences that produce balance, fulfillment, color, and richness. Doran and Slongwhite's intensely personal revelations will lead you to deeper meaning in it and insight in your own life. Gathering makes every facet of living a cause for reflection and celebration.

This remarkable story of heartaches and triumphs in the life of James Finley, father of it is Written speaker/director Mark Finley, is a faith–renewing experience that will lift your soul.Shuttled back and forth, a "burden shifted only until his weight became too heavy," Jim grew up on the streets of New York City, struggling for survival in a world that didn't want him. From Hell's Kitchen to Harlem, from Coney Island to Jersey City, Jim survived, taking with him the will to find a meeting that transcended the harsh reality of his life.How he ultimately found that meeting, and shared the richness and strength of his new–found faith with the five members of his family, is an account that is both riveting and endearing. Nobody's Boy is a story that will not be forgotten once the book has been put down.